School kids in Siberia have unearthed a mysterious ‘smelly beast’ which is baffling boffins

Experts are to examine the skull and rib bones of the creature which is believed to be around 25,000 years old.

Archeologists are as yet uncertain about the creature but one theory is it could be an extinct woolly rhinoceros the remains of which had been preserved in frozen soil.

Varvara Kuzmina, head of the local school lore museum in Tit-Ary village in the Khangalassky district of Yakutia, also known as the Sakha Republic, said students helped with the dig after excavations for a new road loosened the soil, leading to permafrost melting.